Trip to DC Part 1

Our summer trip this year was to go to Washington DC. Marlys attended the Triennial XIII for women of the Covenant church July 22-25. Of course, that was the perfect reason to head east camping. We left July 15th heading to Wisconsin. Our first stop was in Appleton to see Marlys' cousins, Jud and Marge. We surprised them and had a nice visit. They even returned one of Larry's games which we promptly gave away again as we traveled. It was fun to share our travels to Norway and Ukraine with Marge and Jud.
We have always talked about taking the ferry to Michigan, so this year we did it! We enjoyed the historical sights of Two Rivers before driving to Manitowac to board the ferry. It was fun to visit with other travelers - sharing stories and getting advice.
We camped in Luddington, Mich. and then headed toward Detroit.
We were very disappointed to miss seeing Ryan & Laura and Elaine and Bud, but we appreciated the offer of a place to stay near Detroit. Since we were doing Wilson family history, we met Phil - a fellow researcher and distant relation - at a cemetry outside Detroit. We spent some time in history centers and county offices. We had to keep moving, so we took the short way east through Canada. It got late that day so we opted to stay at a campground near Niagra Falls in Ontario. Larry even took advantage of their pool!
Then it was on toward Rochester to look up more genealogy and visit cousin Tom's son, Tom Jr, Shelley and their 4 children. We had such a great time getting to know them. The last time we were there, they had no children! After two lively kids, they just had twins! It is a jumping place and we loved being there.


We continued east through the Finger Lake region for more genealogy and then headed south to Pennsylvania. We had been reading Chesapeake by James . They mentioned going to the head of the Sussquahanna River and we were camping on its banks! How neat!
By this time it was nearing time for the conference to start in Washington DC so we continued in that direction. Larry dropped me off at the hotel and continued on to TaKe It Easy Campground in Maryland. All would have been great except for the 105 temperatures over those days when he was camping and Marlys was basking in the luxury of hotel air conditioning. Continued n next blog...
The Sussquahanna River